ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2013
Mother-clinician discussions in the neonatal intensive care unit: agree to disagree?
Article in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Explanations and information-giving: clinician strategies used in talking to parents of preterm infants.BMC pediatrics · 2016Trial
- Communication of Illness Severity to Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Scoping Review of Communication Characteristics and Prognostic Framing.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Development of a checklist for evaluation of shared decision-making in consultation for extremely preterm delivery.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
- Assessment of parent understanding in conferences for critically ill neonates.Patient education and counseling · 2022Article
- Maternal Perceptions About Sensory Interventions in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: An Exploratory Qualitative Study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Optimism bias in understanding neonatal prognoses.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Article
- Infant illness severity and perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit.Early human development · 2020Article
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- Communicating prognosis with parents of critically ill infants: direct observation of clinician behaviors.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2017Article
- Parental Concordance Regarding Problems and Hopes for Seriously Ill Children: A Two-Year Cohort Study.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2017Article
- Recommendations for enhancing psychosocial support of NICU parents through staff education and support.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2015Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo compare mothers' and clinicians' understanding of an infant's illness and perceptions of discussion quality in the neonatal intensive care unit. STUDY
designEnglish-speaking mothers with an infant admitted to the intensive care unit for at least 48 h were interviewed using a semi-structured survey. The clinician whom the mother had spoken to and identified was also surveyed. Interviews were audiotaped and transcribed.
resultA total of 101 mother-clinician pairs were interviewed. Most mothers (89%) and clinicians (92%) felt that their discussions had gone well. Almost all mothers could identify one of their infant's diagnoses (100%) and treatments (93.4%). Mothers and clinicians disagreed on infant illness severity 45% of the time. The majority of mothers (62.5%) who disagreed with clinician estimate of infant illness severity believed their infant to be less sick than indicated by the clinician.
conclusionMother-clinician satisfaction with communication does not ensure mother-clinician agreement about an infant's medical status.
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